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mountain range
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mountain range [′mau̇nt·ən ‚rānj]
(geography)
A succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges closely related in position, direction, and geologic features.
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Thanks to new techniques and equipment either invented or developed and refined in Switzerland, such as shotcrete and tunnel boring machines and high precision measuring devices like sliding micrometers and profilers, permitting safety control and better understanding of the structural behaviour of rock mass, so many tunnels have been drilled that the major mountain barriers have disappeared and the four seasons merged into one.
THE BIG DIG by GREEN, MICHAEL / Swiss News
 
 
 
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